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CAS-1395 – Converting To SAP S/4HANA

Lessons Learned From A Customer’s Experience

Stephen Jerram

Solution Director – itelligence UK

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Before we start

Brandon Austin

• Partner Engineer

• SUSE for 4 years

• [email protected]

SUSE

• SAP’s Preferred Partner

• 20+ years of collaboration

• SAP Developed on SUSE

• 90% of HANA deployments on SUSE

• 70% of SAP apps run on SUSE

mailto:[email protected]

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Before we start

Stephen Jerram

• Solution Director

• SAP for 19 years

• [email protected]

• @mrstephenjerram on Twitter

itelligence

• SAP’s largest Global Reseller

• 9,000+ SAP Staff in 23 Countries

• Software, Services and Managed Cloud

mailto:[email protected]

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Agenda

1. The customer and challenge

2. High level approach

3. Story behind the story

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The Customer

And Challenge

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http://www.iesa.co.uk/

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Where were the Opportunities to do Better?

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Process

Efficiencies

Any process

improvements

directly impact the

bottom line

Smarter

Decision

Making

Lack of quality,

real time info for

customers in

multiple time

zones

IT Operational

Efficiencies

Many in-house

apps – costly to

keep lights on &

manage

integrations

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The Big Roadblock To International Expansion….

Paradox of

choice

Risk, cost,

time to value

Boiling the

ocean

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The Choice | Easter Or Christmas?

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High Level

Approach

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itelligence Transformation Framework

Assess Move Transform

Landscape

Transition

Feasibility, Cost,

Timeline, Value,

Living Roadmap

1 2

Execution of Living Roadmap

Prioritised by Business Value & Needs

Consolidate & Extend

Projects

“Innovate” Projects

“Adopt” Projects

3

Go

Live

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it.S/4HANA conversionr2r

A Packaged Ready-to-Run Solution to Lift Your Existing

SAP ERP System to SAP S/4HANA

• Proven methodologies, tools and services

• itelligence Conversion Factory

• Hybrid delivery model

Discover more at:

itel.li/conversion

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22Weeks up to Easter

4Weeks

1 2

Ongoing

3

Go

Live

Fiori user experience

Business Process Re-engineering in MRP

Procurement and Billing

Real time analytics – for IESA & their

Customers

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The Story Behind

The Story

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Landscape

Transition4

Weeks

1 2

Execution Of Living Roadmap

Prioritised By Business Value & Needs


Projects



3

Go

Live

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Assessment

• Readiness check

• Technical assessment

• Simplification items

• Add-ons (SAP and 3rd Party)

• Custom code

• Infrastructure

• Test readiness

Understand Your Situation#1

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Paradox of

choice

Risk, cost,

time to value

Boiling the

ocean

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Validated

path to S/4

Acceptable

cost and

timeline

Controlled

scope

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Landscape

Transition4

Weeks

1 2

Execution Of Living Roadmap

Prioritised By Business Value & Needs


Projects



3

Go

Live

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4Weeks

1 2




Projects



3

Go

Live

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SAP S/4HANA Transition Scenarios

System

Conversion

A good option when you want to:

• Bring your existing business processes to the new platform

• Keep your investment in custom code

• Adopt new innovations at your speed at a later point of time

and in a phased approach

On-PremiseERP System

SAP S/4HANA

New

Implementation

Good option for an SAP system that may be:

• An older release

• Highly customized or modified

• Lacking the system requirements for a technical

system conversion

On-Premise

S/4HANA Cloud

Third-party

System

Selective

Data Transition

A good option when you want to:

• Merge and/or split existing ECC instances

• Migrate a selection of data by organisational units

• Migrate configuration

On-Premise

S/4HANA Cloud

ERP SystemRegionA

ERP SystemRegionB

ERP SystemRegionC

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it.S/4HANA conversionr2r

A Packaged Ready-to-Run Solution to Lift Your Existing

SAP ERP System to SAP S/4HANA

• Proven methodologies, tools and services

• itelligence Conversion Factory

• Hybrid delivery model

Discover more at:

itel.li/conversion

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it.S/4HANA Conversion | Communication & Collaboration Model

itelligence Onsite Team

IESA

Conversion Factory

Flexible & Scalable Cluster Model

Pe

op

le Too

ls

Project Manager

System Administrator

Consultant LOG

Consultant NN

Consultant FIN

Consultant NN

Project Manager

System Admininistrator

Keyuser LOG

Keyuser NN

Keyuser FIN

Keyuser NN

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it.S/4HANA Conversion CyclesCV 1

1. Prod to Sandbox (SBX) Copy

2. SBX Conversion

3. SBX Functional Testing

CV 1.5


5. SBX Conversion

6. SBX Functional Testing

Development Freeze (minimize)

7. DEV Build from CV 1.5

CV 2


9. SBX Conversion

10. SBX Functional Testing (UAT)

CV 3

11. PRD Conversion

12. PRD Pre-Release Testing

13. QAS Build from CV 3

SBX

PRDQASDEV

DEV QAS SBX

PRD

1

2

11

4

36

5

12

Any DB Platform

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13

8

10

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Have the Right Infrastructure#2 Be Ready to Test#3 It’s Not A Dress Rehearsal#4

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it.S/4HANA Conversion - Impact of Multiple Cycles

1 1.5 2 3

230 64Hours drastically reduced

Get Match Fit#5

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it.S/4HANA conversionr2r - On Time & Under Budget

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Project TimelineNovember December January February March April

Prep

CV1 Convert & Test

11 weeks

CV2 Convert &

Test

4 weeks

PRD

Prep

CV3

Pla

nA

ctu

al

Prep

CV1 Convert & Test

11 weeks

CV1.5 Convert & Test

6 weeks

CV2 Convert

& Test

3 weeks

PRD

Prep

CV3

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4Weeks

1 2




Projects



3

Go

Live

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4Weeks

1 2

Ongoing

3

Go

Live

Fiori user experience

Business Process Re-engineering in MRP

Procurement and Billing

Real time analytics – for IESA & their

customers


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Summary

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Key Tips

Get Match Fit#5

It’s Not a Dress Rehearsal#4

Be Ready to Test#3

Have the Right Infrastructure#2

Understand Your Situation#1

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https://uk.itelligencegroup.com/10-mantras-for-a-successful-move-to-s/4hana-white-paper

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Questions?

EmailBrandon [email protected]

OrStephen [email protected]

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Thanks For Listening

Lessons Learned From A Customer’s Experience

Stephen Jerram

Solution Director – itelligence UK

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